Benjamin Walker was born in 1753 in London, England, and died in 1818 in Utica, New York. At a young age, he entered a merchant house which brought him to the United States. Walker settled in New York City and resided with a merchant. On August 30, 1784, he married a Quaker woman named Mary Robinson, and they had one daughter named Eliza (1789-1850), whom they raised along with Mary’s niece. Before this, Walker joined the Revolutionary War and was appointed Captain of the Second New York Regiment. He then worked as the First Secretary to the Governor of New York as a broker. Walker was formally adopted by Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, a Prussian military officer, and was made his heir. According to the US Census, Walker owned two enslaved people in 1800. Walker Street in Manhattan was named in his honour.

Alfred Edmund Walker was born on June 2, 1820 or 1821, in London, England.

He was a paleontologist. He was interested in the study of rocks and fossils of the Hamilton district. In 1895, he presented his collection of fossils acquired over a period of thirty years to the Geological Section of the Hamilton Association for the Advancement of Literature, Science and Art. He repeatedly served as Vice-President of the Association and was also President of its Geological Section. A newly discovered fossil sponge Acaulospora Walkeri was named in his honour.

In 1845, he married Fanny Murton (1824–1907). He died on April 17, 1902, in Hamilton, Ontario.

Charles Walkem received his commission as a land-surveyor on 4 March 1848.

Walery was a series of photography studios run by Count Stanislaw Julian Ostrotog (1836-1890) and his son, Stanislaw Julian Ignacy Ostrorog (1863-1929). Born into Polish nobility, Ostroróg the father migrated to London in approximately 1856, and then Paris in 1857, after serving in the Ottoman army. He opened photography studios in Marseilles and Paris, and later one in Nice in 1879. He sold these in approximately 1884 to open a studio in London. The studios specialized in portraiture, especially of the upper classes, and the studio's customers included Queen Victoria. Upon his death in 1890, Ostroróg's son took over the business, having learned photography from his father. He eventually partnered with theatrical photographer Alfred Ellis (1854–1930) as "Ellis and Walery." In 1900, Ostroróg moved to Paris and opened a studio there, specializing in portraits and cabinet cards of theatre and cabaret stars.He died in 1929.

Anne Waldman was born on April 2, 1945, in Millville, New Jersey, and raised in New York City's Greenwich Village.

She is an American poet, writer, performer, professor, publisher, editor, scholar, and cultural/political activist. She graduated from Bennington College (B.A., 1966). From 1966 to 1968, she served as Assistant Director of the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church in New York City and, from 1968 to 1978, as the Project's Director. In the early 1960s, Waldman became a student of Buddhism. While attending the Berkeley Poetry Conference in 1965 with poet Lewis Warsh, they founded Angel Hair, a small press that produced a magazine of the same name and several smaller books. In 1974, she became one of the co-founders of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado (now Naropa University), where she remains a Distinguished Professor of Poetics and the Director of Naropa's celebrated Summer Writing Program. Waldman has been a fervent activist for social change, opposing the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons facility ten miles south of Boulder, Colorado, in the 1970s. In 1980, she married Reed Bye and their son, Edwin Ambrose Bye, was born on October 21, 1980. Nowadays, Waldman and her son perform together. They also created a New York City label Fast Speaking Music, producing multiple albums. Her work has been connected to the Beat Generation poets. Waldman has published more than forty books of poetry. Her work has been widely anthologized, e.g., “Up Late” (1988), “Postmodern American Poetry” (1994), “Women of the Beat Generation” (1996), “All Poets Welcome” (2003), and “Breaking the Cool” (2004). Her poems have been translated into French, Italian, German, Turkish, Spanish, and Chinese. She has held residencies at various universities all over the world, including Tokyo, Vienna, and Prague. In 2011, Waldman was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets